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The next in Europe these days really needs [Music] resilience needs resilience we’ve been it thrust upon us with Co and closing D of SK result results SK results just not opening again and then closing as soon as they
Open and then brexit the actual reality of it hard the only one that was ever going to happen I’m on a train through Sten five valleys in the southern cwal of England this was my un salubrious tail between my legs exit from Europe from London Padington well from King’s cross and panr
Europe from DOA prior train stations I’ve got later form of Co now but I’m not going to go all bleeding hearts on you or am I I got off the C to do fery exchange bre
Pio meal vou for a lift West um I FL my own guts out biking across over to be turned down at the petrol station where I’d arranged to meet that guy giving me the left on implausible
Basis of how his huge tow truck had no space for a bromton that’s a fold up bicycle that I’ve got in a shopping bag there’s a new golden Visitor Center in color TI off fesses just in
Port cabins wind SED Wasteland New Roads and truck Parks kind T is it far far away which wasn’t too much of a pain for me on my lots of well- meing uninformed non-french speaking little Class People Smugglers keeping ukrainians company spending their own money slowly exchange [Music] for
P in exchange for social media footage and more Great British couples get to know Ukrainian families and single parent who are saying for now that they widows seeking The Pick of the bunch the best fit to take home with them reports of inappropriate requests by hosts
Securing their own space the UK place for first refugees those reports will be materializing soon a few weeks or months down the line people needing help often do end up helping themselves and grasping at opportunities suddenly so many of the ukrainians just thought that they could
Get through customs and operator checkpoints just with charm few small few they were BLS did get a bit High rate slightly that it wasn’t all smooth sailing for them they had someone doing the English for them to the French people that spoke perfect English but I find Pio very
Inflexible you have a passenger locator form for a booked Journey denying very early very alternative but not slightly early very they were just using the hypocrisy of it just using the rules of a worldwide disaster as a reason why I couldn’t go on an earlier Ferry I was 12
Hours early for but other Fair companies have never had a problem with it that didn’t mean I had plenty of time for dinner well I am cycling not driving so a bottle of red wine for the table one for the journey French rural culture they wouldn’t really concern themselves about cycling
They would just drive if they were drinking since is very slowly reducing so I’m back in BL and 3 months later we get a call and glorious return to France is facilitated to collect the Volkswagen [Music] the form passenger res don’t refuse in alternative the very May AC the PO
To explain to the French who live out in the country you seem not to know drinking and driving is illegal and you are [Music] impaired the need for an electric bike has been emphasized do I go for a
Legal 250 watt or a useful thousand watt to get out mountains and that cost again of the battery and the same cost again of a solar [Music] [Applause] [Music] charger Volkswagen the transporter Against All my expectations it’s been resurrected and hundred
Other people’s expectations that I called to try and facilitate it so many calls in French buy a new van hopefully a backup that can be AI insured for a couple of years up to 10 or 12 Years A t32
Should be built like a tank can’t we do Russian references twice as much as I’ve ever paid for any vehicle before emails to Germany I routinely fill the van with a ton or two of recycled building materials it to the Alpine the Chalet in [Music] the but at Great expense to
Rent [Music] van partway down the Thousand M [Music] stretch through France an unload and [Music] reload load at the eventual destination got ripped off by with tenacity and belligerence in my tone I talked a good talk of mechanical key words that I’d learned fair amount of surprise and pained Expressions
On French people’s faces look Supermarket on the rental of the B but it was proper handed make a note of the mileage and watch them give you your deposit on your card back don’t trust them while back in BL he had to really get an additional
Backup got vehicle as well as a engine sent from Germany to the mechanics in France that wouldn’t release it to another mechanic a longer wheelbase t32 real camper worthy thing purchas in the meantime just in case so so far that’s 10,000 for backup th000 for engine and another,
For the pl of B man nothing compared to Frenchmen and Germans the inure of it all my calls are trying to imbue them with motivation but it’s just inertia grinding every step of the way but I made it happen in a foreign language too but I needed that invaluable folding mountain
Bike and Sheed to help flu’s fate through the Great Western Railway routes chats with concerned locals on London Underground she was lovely an Irish jumpy kicky Dancy dancer oh it could have been the stuff of fairy tales the QR codes of boosters past still needed as a little
Push biker I was dwarfed by Lanes of Giants and to foreign lands long since void of Hope of return to my dream of a life of leisure and DIY disasters and relevation ridicules abroad that hard one modern toll of our age the mobile contract Sim with data came into its own
Bestowed upon our Valiant hero of this epic tale by an unknowing oversight of an underdog occasional representative of an underdog in the realm of giant multinationals and WS but buttery can still fail you there were two virgin maidens of the pay de Cal that had
Bravely volunteered to help our hero openly displaying their English skills and shown the way in Pure Heart where nowhere to be seen when retracing the steps they guided on the triumphant return collect the mechanical seed recovered of its wounds while waiting for the
Train South a Tred soul of the he shouted at the half dozen African immigrants congregated shouted at them for their lack of interest in her they were aloof and more educated with a wider range of expression other more established arrived later in the morning rhythmically attempting
Well attempting coercively controlling an out of town commuter and any girls visiting chances just using a volume hassle technique the shouter was one of those reciprocating M women you know there’s one near you like post-traumatic stress flashbacks of the sagas of resilience Revisited
The robust mind of our hero on approaching the garage the veteran van had been towed to from the page Motorway so much researching for specialist repairers awkwardly phoning in a barely understood language using specialist terms the one that had the skills was chasing off by the holding garage
So too was the scrapyard that was rubbing its hands together the plume of smoke out the back of the van at 90 mph downhill injured it Gravely but the slapstick amused insistence of the deage helper and overconfident garage goons insisted on wish fulfillment and killed it for sure testing
It in its vulnerability but now A Hero’s composure was tested but remained maintained it’s dead it’s the end diagnosis was clear in any language find your time amongst monsters their play thing get from them what you can the veteran van cannot be AA insured or scrapped and buried in this foreign
Land near the leftand drive land of its birth Towing by professional colleague or self would cost similar to the profound repair but it’s tou and go if the overconfident holding garage would even take it on as a challenge beyond the ordinary perhaps the van was more grossly overloaded than
The last half dozen migration South perhaps the van was just covid years older perhaps complacent let see of the well chosen lowrisk long rout attentiveness not enough attentiveness having kittens with the with the old girl that’s the or just that I should have changed the engine oil at
Service mileage interval recommendations then I wouldn’t be putting in a second engine and the ordinary of Belgium is further depage costway just to look but on the electronic interface of it it would appear that Belgium has more competent mechanics a chance apparent Safe
Haven offered a way of moving the mountainous load with so far to go and bearing Down On Our Hero’s shoulders the neighbors offering was rented and transferred the load to the strict time deadline catastrophe a mere blip in the time through chunk of build budget little did
Our hero know the corruption of the neighbor of strangers he was renting a blank check for them The Reluctant garage the blacksmith of old soured no nothing got 80% complete without engine codes cleared or hold connectors replaced or and everyone tried it on a vulnerable hero a German
Supplier tried evasion outside the marketplace testing for many many many kilometers around a roundabout at speed and charging for new P how can you wear the tires and then charge for new tires control technique another neighbor OT intended from the onset for change of
Registration from De to UK to FR started off as a German vehicle turned it into a British vehicle and it’s going to become a French vehicle I’ll do a howto of that process that repatriation could still claw back the imposed premature expenditures of the plume of spoke disaster
Why not just put it to rest well it’s fundamental to the repurpose reuse recycle of using discarded building materials refuse une ethical big Finance is the concept behind the build use ad hoc sustainable investment delivering any vanload of hoed building materials the load
Always seems to get a lighted at the Alpine barn by night I know the neighbors don’t love me and then onward to the holiday after a midnight feast and the internal recycling of that FES in nocturn the moral of this modern tale of chivalry when the waybridge reads 3.6 tons
Take it easy stay attentive minimal input driving don’t get distracted by the beautiful woman next to you and your engine may not blow up running away with you and y burdens downhill at 150 km an hour and near 4,000 RPM that’s revolutions are Manet the outcome mounting biking holiday portion
Salvaged bookings hotels restaurants kept one home by train one scurrying back to England by bike from returning pay to Cal rental now I can look back philosophically but it was frazzled nerves at time time such a great healer please no one ever do anything rash the feeling will pass
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